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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Pilot" – "Hiroshima".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt agree to combine their resources and work on atomic weapons in the United States?
(a) Because the United States had the advantage of top scientists.
(b) Because Britain was inundated with Soviet spies.
(c) Because Britain was under attack from German bombers.
(d) Because Britain was about to ally with Germany.

2. On what date was Albert Einstein's letter to the U.S. President warning of Germany's development of an atomic bomb delivered?
(a) April 22, 1938.
(b) October 11, 1939.
(c) November 1, 1939.
(d) September 1, 1939.

3. Who accompanied the uranium as it was shipped toward the destination of Tinian?
(a) Robert Oppenheimer and Arne Kjelstrup.
(b) General Brehon Somervell and Colonel John Wilson.
(c) Major Robert Furman and Captain James Nolan.
(d) Lt. Colonel Boris Pash and General George Marshall.

4. Where did Robert Oppenheimer work as a theoretical physicist and professor of physics in the 1930s?
(a) The University of Wisconsin.
(b) Princeton University.
(c) The University of Chicago.
(d) The University of California, Berkeley.

5. How did Haukelid injure himself during a training exercise before the special mission he was selected for, according to the author in "International Gangster School"?
(a) He shot himself in the foot.
(b) He shot himself in the arm.
(c) He broke his arm climbing a fence.
(d) He almost drowned in a river.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Adolf Hitler annex Austria into his German Empire?

2. How many people were aboard the ferry as it transported heavy water from the Vemork plant?

3. Where did Harry Gold travel to deliver the lab information to Soviet spies, according to the author in "Tradecraft"?

4. Who told Oppenheimer after his visit to San Francisco in June of 1943, "In the future, please avoid seeing your questionable friends"?

5. Who was General Lestlie Groves's top intelligence officer in late 1943?

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